I did not know that

I was once omnipotent !

Strange as it seems,

my daughter told

me it was so.

I never dreamed that

she or her two brothers

would think of me

as anything but Dad.

And when at last they

realized all my faults,

my warts, my scars,

the things that set me low.

They felt let down by me,

their father and their mentor;

although I never knew

that it was so.

 

 

David Garlick, Victoria, December, 1994